Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
More Quotes from Henri Bergson:
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.Henri Bergson
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
Henri Bergson
My body, an object destined to move other objects, is, then, a centre of action it cannot give birth to a representation.
Henri Bergson
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
Henri Bergson
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